Tuesday, 25 November 2008

Pain accompanies a slight return of movement

Jo was up by 08:30, seemingly having slept well despite not having a sleeping tablet last night. The physiotherapy session was aborted because of the neuropathic pain in her left leg. I did notice when Jo was transferring to the plinth that her left leg wasn't dragging, that she seemed to be making some attempt to move it in concert with the rest of her body. Perhaps this new neuropathic pain is symptomatic of returning movement?

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Different strokes...

It has been nearly seven years since Jo suffered a "controlled" stroke whilst undergoing brain surgery to clip the blood vessel that had caused a subarachnoid haemorrhage in 2000. Sadly two successive coilings did not occlude the bleed and so Jo had a craniotomy in August 2008. During surgery the surgeon discovered the coiling had penetrated the rear of the aneurysm, occasioning emergency repair procedures. Consequentially they spent one and a half hours longer in surgery than expected, leading to the right half of Jo's brain forgetting it has to look after the left side of her world.